IT'S A DIG INTO FLORIDA'S PAST. ONE-HUNDRED YEARS AFTER THE REMAINS OF HUMANS AND TIGERS WERE FOUND...THERE'S NOW ANOTHER DIG HAPPENING NEAR THE VERO BEACH AIRPORT. RANDY GYLLENHAAL HAS THE STORY. 3 LL INTRO: 15;14;18 100 YEARS AGO, ARCHEOLOGISTS STUMBLED UPON A HISTORIC FIND IN VERO BEACH. HUMAN REMAINS, WOOLY- MAMMOTH AND SABERTOOTH TIGERS FROM THOUSANDS OF YEARS AGO. NOW, 100-YEARS LATER -- THEY'RE DIGGING AGAIN RIGHT NEXT DOOR... HOPING TO ANSWER QUESTIONS ABOUT WHO WE ARE AND WHERE WE AS HUMANS CAME FROM nat diggingIT'S PERHAPS FITTING THAT -- ON THE FIRST DAY OF THIS ICE AGE EXCAVATION -- TEMPERATURES DROPPED INTO THE FRIGID 40S...natBACK TO AN ERA WHEN FLORIDA WAS COLDER... AND HUMANS WERE JUST GETTING SETTLED. 14;49;24 where did they come from. Biologically, who are they? Culturally who are theyDR. ANDREW HEMMING AND A TEAM FROM MERCYHURST UNIVERSITY... ARE CONDUCTING AN ARCHEOLOGICAL DIG. nat plane JUST SOUTH OF THE VERO BEACH AIRPORT... AT A SITE RICH WITH HISTORY. 14;48;36 answer some questions that have remained unresolved for a centuryIN 1915 -- SCIENTISTS FOUND OLD HUMAN REMAINS... ALONGISDE WOOLY-MAMMOTHS AND SABER TOOTH TIGERS.EVIDENCE THAT EARLY HUMANS... LIVED SIDE-BY-SIDE WITH ANCIENT BEASTS.quick nat TODAY -- THE TEAM IS USING áNEWá TECHNOLOGY -- LIKE CARBON-DATING -- TO LEARN MORE. 14;50;30 any kind of evidence that indicates human being interacted with those animals, killing them eating them, making tools out of them THE RESULTS COULD CHANGE THE WAY WE VIEW HUMAN HISTORY... INSIGHT INTO HOW WE MIGRATED FROM OVERSEAS -- INTO THE AMERICAS AND FLORIDA.15;10;56 I think there will be, as they say, ground breaking discoveriesLOCAL ORGANIZERS LIKE SANDRA RAWLS BELIEVE THAT WHATEVER IS HIDDEN BENEATH THE SOIL -- COULD PUT VERO BEACH IN THE HISTORY BOOKS.15;11;10 I think some of the things they're going to discover here will be extremely important to the history of north america 15;15;24 AND THIS DIG WILL GO FOR FIVE MONTHS, MID MAY, COST A HALF MILLION DOLLARS FROM LOCAL DONORS. RG WPBF 25 NEWS 3

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